Earlier this month,
the Trump administration sent a quote-unquote education compact to nine American universities,
asking them to meet some standards on admissions, enrollment, campus life, and tuition.
If universities agree to the standards, they can get preferential access to federal funding.
Now, this was called a devil's bargain by MSNBC and federal intimidation by USA Today.
And it was a reminder that the Trump White House is still seeking control over colleges.
and that many colleges have bowed to demands.
Though, at this point, not one of the nine universities has signed that compact.
Coming up on Today Explained from Vox, my colleague, Kara Swisher, interviews Princeton's president.
He has drawn praise in some quarters for standing up to Trump.
That's coming up next.
This week on The Gray Area,
we're learning about how memory affects the stories we tell ourselves and each other.
People tend to remember positive events more from their lives than negative events,
but more importantly, when they reconstruct them, they tend to remember themselves more positively.
And then you construct a narrative out of it.
Maybe that narrative is that our people are great.
Maybe that narrative is we used to be great and now we're terrible, we need to be great again.
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